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Table of Contents
BOOK 1
THE ANGEL ST. GEORGE FROM THE CLOUD
Chapter One: The Sun Gaily Passed Page 3
Dusk: The End of the First Day’s Battle – Across the Canal — The Judgment – A Bullet Found Lieutenant Dease
Chapter Two: War will Call Us Soon Page 9
Training – The Lectures – Who will be the Top Vickers Teams? – In the Workshop – In the Common Room – Interlude: “The Laughing Husband” and Lord Gooseberry Tart – Gunners Godley and Sanders Report to the Section Leader – On the Firing Range and Fields at Hythe and Grantham – Knackers Hauled a Dozen Dead Horses – The Tournament – Lt. Colonel Norman R. McMahon Congratulates the Winners –Passing out Parade – The Ruffians and Victors Plan their Tableau – Celebration — Next Day, At the Manufactory – Comments, Congratulations, Salutations, and Wishes for Success
Chapter Three: To Mons Page 34
These Vickers Machine Gun Squads Went on Ahead – Unloading the Limbers – Our Ladies – The Briefing – “Mons Shares St. George with You British”
Chapter Four: The Priest’s Sermon: St. George and Mons Page 43
“God and Monseigneurs Saint Georges” – “The Golden Arrows of God”
Chapter Five: The Angel St. George of Mons Page 49
Preparation – Sunday Morning – By Tonight We Will be Victorious – The Cloud of Dust – Where the Canal Makes a Sharp Turn – On the Slag Heaps –Tommy Atkins’ First Death – At the Victors: St. George and his Horde of Angels Descends
Chapter Six: Across the Canal the Germans Saw The Phenomenon in
the Heavens Page 66
And So They Saw – From Drunk with Gladness to Sober with Grief – Lieutenant Maurice Deasy’s Ascent and Transfiguration – Even German Officers and Staff in the Field Saw the Angel –They Fought through the Hours to the End of Day: The Retirement – Escape into the Twilight and the Night – That Night the British Generals Marched the Exhausted BEF Thirty-two Miles
Chapter Seven: Jeanne d’Arc and the Road Through Page 75
Ahead Lay the Certainty – The Locale – From the Distance Came the Barking of Dogs and Lantern Light – Mongo Black Disappeared into the Gloom, The Victors Following — The Road where No Road Was – The Cyclists – Goullet Goes Forward – The Return – Captain Ashburner’s Conversion – Report to General Smith-Dorrien: A Pawn Offers Itself for Sacrifice – After Prolonged Silence – The Generals’ Meeting – General Smith-Dorrien’s Dream – The General’s Determination – The Ride Back – Protecting the Secret
BOOK 2
DR. MALCOLM LECKIE AND NURSE’S AIDE PHYLLIS CAMPBELL
Chapter Eight: The Engagement Page 101
Captain Malcolm Leckie and his Fiancée, Phyllis Campbell
Chapter Nine: Malcolm Leckie, Prisoner of War Page 107
After Surgery – Another Meeting – “You Saw Them?” “Yes. Clouds Turned to Golden Angels.” – In Parting
Chapter Ten: Greetings and Farewell Page 114
Malcolm Leckie, Wounded, Returned to British Care – Phyllis Campbell, Nurses’ Aide, Voluntary Aid Detachment, and the Hospital Enquiry Sheets – The Angel of Mons: St. George, Intercessor and Salvation
BOOK 3
ANGELS AT LE CATEAU AND THE VICKERS TEAMS
Chapter Eleven: The Quarry, St. George, and the Angels of the Golden Mist
of Salvation Page 121
Without Pity or Remorse – A Lovely Place. A Deadly March – All that Remained was to Wave the White Flag – The Quarry – To the Bottom – The Problem of Manhandling the Gun to the Quarry Floor – Ziggy and Carmichael down the Wall – Valley of the Shadow of Death – What Tommy Atkins Saw – Tommy Atkins’ Second Encounter with the Divine – The Ascent out of the Pit – Let Death Rest from Toil
Chapter Twelve: St. George and the Angels of the Dark Cloud Page 136
On this Vast Plain – Two Tethered Bosche Balloons – The Enemy Arrives – The Air Was Still – The Germans Came up to Us – “Angels Saved us Before. Why not Now?” – Herr Lieutenant Sardonic – A Front Row View – The Sky of Three Suns – The Rocks Arise as Soldiers – St. George! In the Flesh! – “Shoot an Angel of God?” – The Onslaught Halted – As Swiftly as they had Come – Souvenirs
BOOK 4
THE ANGEL OF MONS,CONAN DOYLE,W. B. YEATS, AND WINSTON CHURCHILL
Chapter Thirteen: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Captain Leckie’s
Letter from beyond the Grave Page 159
Uncertainty Lay Heavy upon the Heart – Lily Loder-Symmons and Automatic Writing – Captain Leckie’s Handwriting – A Test – The Answer – In the Library
Chapter Fourteen: W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen’s “The Bowmen” and the Battle of Le Cateau Page 174
A Heavenly Army Arose to Save Them – Yeats in Mackerson’s Pub – Yeats, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Angels of the Dark Cloud – Africanus Comes to his Aid – Arthur Machen’s “The Bowmen”
Chapter Fifteen: Yeats Meets Conan Doyle Page 192
Yeats Worried – A Page Torn from a Doctor’s Prescription Pad
Chapter Sixteen: The Angel of Mons,Winston Churchill
And his Aunt, Lady Janey Campbell Page 196
Lady Campbell’s Note – Tea – On the Way back to his Office
Chapter Seventeen:
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill
with Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Page 204
Churchill has Much to Tell Doyle and Holmes – Assignments – A Private Matter – Holmes and Churchill Alone – Word of the Angels will Spread – Ready to Depart
BOOK 5
THE LAST BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED
Chapter Eighteen: Tommy Atkins: Angel of Memory, Grief, and Tears Page 217
Before All the Falderal – In the Nuns’ Woods North – Quiet as a Sunday Morn – Not the Last of the Ruffians and Victors – Marching Northwest into Belgium – Tommy Atkins, His Ascension – Tommy Atkins: Angel of Grief, Memory, and Tears – Dear Reader